Shanmuganathan Raman Research Scholar and Microsoft Research India Fellow Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India [email protected], [email protected] 91-9819989547, http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/student/~shanmuga

OBJECTIVE To excel in the and Graphics research by working in a highly motivated organization

EDUCATION Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , July 2006 – Till Date, Course Work CPI – 8.93/10 PhD in Electrical Engineering Research Area: Computer Vision and Graphics, Computational Photography Advisor: Prof Subhasis Chaudhuri Indian Institute of Technology Bombay , Mumbai July 2004 – July 2006, CPI – 9.54/10 Master of Technology in Biomedical Engineering Research Area: Computational Neuroscience Thesis Title: Computational Investigation of the Mechanism of Synaptic Integration in Neurons Advisor: Prof Rohit Manchanda PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore August 1999 – May 2003, CGPA – 9.5/10 Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering Alagappa Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Karaikudi June 1997 – May 1999, 95.08% Higher Secondary Education Alagappa Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Karaikudi May 1997, 87.36% Matriculation Examination

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PUBLICATIONS

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “A Matte-less, Variational Approach to Automatic Scene Compositing”, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2007

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Bilateral Filter based Compositing for Variable Exposure Photography”, Short Paper, European Association for Computer Graphics Conference (EUROGRAPHICS), Munich, Germany, 2009

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Poisson Compositing”, Sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Yokohama, Japan, 2009

 Shanmuganathan Raman, Vishal Kumar, and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Blind De-ghosting for Automatic Multi-exposure Compositing”, Poster, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Yokohama, Japan, 2009

 Nikhil Pande, Shanmuganathan Raman, and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Illumination Compositing for Dark Scenes”, Poster, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, Yokohama, Japan, 2009

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Low Dynamic Range Solutions to the High Dynamic Range Imaging Problem”, Poster, Microsoft Research India Techvista, Bangalore, India, 2010

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Low Dynamic Range Solutions to the High Dynamic Range Imaging Problem”, Second International Conference on Smart IT Applications, Qingdao, China, 2010 (Invited Paper)

 Shanmuganathan Raman and Subhasis Chaudhuri, “Bottom-up Segmentation for Ghost-free Reconstruction of a Dynamic Scene from Multi-exposure Images”, Indian Conference of Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP), Chennai, India, 2010 (Accepted)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Intern | Microsoft Research India, Bangalore April 2008 – June 2008 Worked on the project “Multiple Kernel Learning: Learning to Predict Beauty” with Dr Manik Varma and Dr Lihi Zelnik-Manor Assistant Systems Engineer | Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai June 2003 – July 2004 Contributed to projects in insurance and banking domains

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Undergraduate Trainee | HCL Infosystems, Pondicherry April 2002 – May 2002 Contributed to the development of an automation software for the power recycling of PCs

A C A D E M I C EXPERIENCE Teaching Assistant | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai July 2004 – July 2010 Courses: Computer Vision, Image Processing, Computational Methods, Communication Electronics Lab, Bioelectricity, Biomathematics

RELEVANT COURSES D O N E AT IIT BOMBAY Computer Vision, Image Processing, Statistical Signal Analysis, Adaptive Signal Processing, Matrix Computations, DSP and its Applications, Wavelets, Digital Message Transmission, Modern Information Systems, Medical Imaging Physics, Biostatistics, Bioelectricity, Signals and Systems, Physiology for Engineers

ORGANIZATIO N Was part of the team which organized CNS2005 - A Short Course on Computational Neuroscience in IIT Bombay, October 8-16, 2005 sponsored by National Brain Research Centre (NBRC), India

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEME NTS  Awarded Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship for the year 2007  Obtained 98.3 percentile in GATE 2004  Ranked 136 (Top 2%) in Tamilnadu State Engineering Admissions in 1999  Passed Rashtrabasha Praveen Examination conducted by Dhakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha

SKILLS  Packages: Matlab, Mathematica  Languages: C, C++  Applications: LATEX, Adobe Photoshop  Operating Systems: Windows, Linux  System Administration for Vision & Image Processing Laboratory, IIT Bombay

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REFERENCES

Dr Subhasis Chaudhuri Dean (International Relations) and Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India [email protected]

Dr Rohit Manchanda Professor, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India [email protected]

Dr S Arunkumar Adjunct Professor, School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India [email protected]

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